The recording of the Code Generation 2011 session about ‘Modelling the User Interface’ is finally available online at InfoQ.
For further details take a look to the slides and Conceptual User Interface Patterns.
During the video you can see a pair of demos:
The Alt.NET Hispano group has published my VAN about Code generation with Essential. The recording was done in Spanish.
La comunidad Alt.NET Hispano ha publicado la VAN (desconferencia) sobre Generación de código con Essential que tuvimos el pasado dia 11 de junio. Si estás interesado en MDD, generación de código y como aplicarlo con Essential, este video grabado para la comunidad en español es un buen punto de partida.
Mi agradecimiento a Alt.NET Hispano por el interés en la materia y la invitación a divulgarlo.
Descarga directa del video (562 Mb).
Once again, back home after the most exciting till date edition of the Code Generation conference in the latest years. The co-allocation of the Language Workbenches Competition has been a great incentive to attract all of us to join and present alternatives to a great challenge in the domain of modeling and code generation.
In this long post, I want to share my personal view about these days, and for sure, take note it could be partial and subjective. So, be kind to review also the comments as seen by others like Johan den Haan, Markus Völter, Angelo Hulshout, Marco Bambrilla, or Mariot Chauvin to cite a few and more expected to come. Find the majority of the pointers at the http://modeldrivensoftware.net
In this edition, the conference has been deeply covered via twitter using #cg2011 and #lwc11
As expected, I will be only be able to comment about the sessions I personally have attended. Running three tracks in parallel always force us to choose one and miss two other great sessions.
The Code Generation 2011 conference and the Language Workbenches Competition 2011 Workshop are quite close in the calendar.
I want to celebrate it with the MDD community sharing my work on Essential (a tool designed for acquiring speed with Model Driven Development). On 11th may 2011, version 0.4.44 has been released as the first public beta.
Essential is a meta-modeling and code generation tool providing specific DSLs to define and consume:
Try it also with the sample projects created for the LWC 2011 challenge.
Code Generation 2011 is the leading European conference on modeling and code generation. It’s a great opportunity to meet with the experts in the field and share the latest research in the area.
The invited speakers this year are very, very interesting:
As a novelty, previous to the conference itself the first edition of the Language Workbenches Competition will take place on May 24th in the same venue.
In this edition, I will be there again, more active if ever, taking part with some activities:
As always, I’m looking forward to meet again the code generation community.
Take a look to the full programme and don’t miss the chance.
See you in Cambridge!
As blogged before, at CG2010 a group of interest came up with a proposal for creating a Language Workbenches Competition and the first edition will be taking place in Cambridge May 24th, just before CG2011.
I submitted a proposal with Essential for participation in LWC11. It’s going to be a great forum for comparing language workbenches capabilities and the state of the art in the area. If interested, track the progress here LCW11.
During the last weeks I’ve been working a little, replacing the old Microsoft Oslo dependencies to MGrammar inside Essential to an alternative parsing solution. The MS Oslo and later SQL Server Modeling never passed from the CTP stage and finally were discontinued. Therefore, I couldn’t ship a product in such conditions and finally decided to change it.
When building a new tool for modelling and code generation like Essential, one has to rethink again what template engine use to drive all the machinery. In code generation contexts, template engines are a good field for innovation and your choice will be with you probably for the full lifetime of your tool.
In this post, I will try to introduce and explain why StringTemplate is a superb engine for doing code generation and why you should consider it if dealing with a code generation scenario. More… »
The Hello World sample is a nice starting point to show the syntax and capabilities of every new language. This test is also useful for code generators and Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) also as a proof of concept.
Following this honorable tradition, I have created a video showing the capabilities of Essential: the tool I am working on for doing agile Model Driven Development.
In this 10 minutes video you will get a general idea of the DSL the language provides to create:
In order to see the details, jump to Vimeo, activate the High Definition mode (HD) and set full screen (sorry embebed version is not good enough).
Essential IDE – Hello World sample from Pedro J. Molina on Vimeo.
More info about it and 12 usage scenarios in the last Code Generation 2010 presentation about Tailored Code Generators.
Share your impressions!
I presented the following talk: DSL and tool support for Tailored Code Generators at Code Generation 2010, at Cambridge, UK on June 18th.
It also was the public presentation of Essential: the tooling supporting my approach for applying MDD. I got a very good feedback from the audience and receive many request to test the tool.
People interested in beta testing it can still enroll here.
Essential is going to be presented this week in Code Generation 2010 during the session DSL and tool support for building tailored code generators.
To celebrate this milestone and give the chance to have more people trying it, an early version is going to be released for the people interested in.
If this is your case, please enroll yourself using the evaluation request form.